CVE-2018-14880: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OSPFv3 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-ospf6.c:ospf6_print_lshdr().

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15.2 (fixed in 10.15.2)
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Webaccelerator: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.0.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: from 5.2.0, up to and including 5.4.0; from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.1.0; version 7.0.0 only
  • F5 Enterprise Manager: version 3.1.1 only
  • F5 Iworkflow: version 2.3.0 only
  • F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller: from 5.0.0, up to and including 5.1.0
  • Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only; version 31 only
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
  • Tcpdump Tcpdump: before 4.9.3 (fixed in 4.9.3)

Published 2019-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.